While I totally agree many hackers and designers want to bike, walk, and mass transit, I've visited LA recently (I stayed a week to see if I might live there)

While I totally agree many hackers and designers want to bike, walk, and mass transit, I've visited LA recently (I stayed a week to see if I might live there) and I can tell you that many of those types actually live and work in Santa Monica which is quite bike and ped friendly. I have a friend who is working on a startup there ( http://www.homehero.org/ http://www.homehero.org/ ) out of one of the coworking spaces. He bikes to work.